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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe herself after having sex for the first time?
2. What does Benson hear the girls-with-bells-for-eyes saying?
3. What color is the narrator’s ribbon in "The Husband Stitch"?
4. What does the daughter go out to get, in the story the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" tells, of the daughter in Paris?
5. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she knows as soon as she kisses the boy?
Short Essay Questions
1. What can the title of this book mean?
2. What is the DA’s relationship with Benson?
3. What is the effect of having unnamed narrators?
4. What is the importance of the ‘hook-handed hitch-hiker’ in "The Husband Stitch"?
5. What are Abler and Henson’s relationship with Stabler and Benson?
6. What role do the interns play in Stabler and Benson’s drama?
7. How is Stabler’s life unlike the girls with bells with eyes?
8. What special gift does Stabler possess, which travels from person to person like a virus?
9. What is the dominant investigation taking place in ‘"Especial Heinous"?
10. How does Benson learn to protect herself from the girls with bells for eyes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When is Her Body and Other Parties most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 2
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
Essay Topic 3
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
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